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> [But Adam Smith was a philosopher as well as well as an economist, famous in his time as much for his Theory of Moral Sentiments as for The Wealth of Nations. And as he understood so well, society is more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-ormerod/but-adam-smith-was-a-philosopher-as-well-as-well-as-an-economist/)

[Paul Ormerod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-ormerod/)

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> [There are, of course, a number of epistemological questions, some of which lie more in the province of the philosopher than they do the economist or the social scientist. The one with which I am particularly concerned here is that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-e-boulding/there-are-of-course-a-number-of-epistemological-questions-some-of/)

[Kenneth E. Boulding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-e-boulding/)

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